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The Central Library

Test Drive Meme

You are in The Central Library… anything can happen here. In fact, the possible can become actuality while you stay here. Things are always changing. Some for the better, some for the worst… it really all depends on one thing. You.

Take a look around, visit the worlds through the book portals, and slowly bring it back to life. The more you do, the better life will get. But be wary, not everything is a fun story and not everything is harmless. Sometimes you will have your life at stake and others you will simply have to enjoy your stay.

You can use RNG to pick a scenario below… or you can pick your own! Whatever delights your fancy and makes you feel at home within the walls of The Central Library.

1. Arrival – You wake up in the main hall. The reception desk is behind you and you know you heard someone whispering “Save us” in your ear… but where are you? The hall gleams and there are many doors amongst the shelves of books. It is rather huge and a walkway circles a second floor… where are you? Well… you might want to ask.

2. Market Place – The Central Library has turned the large conference room into an open gateway to a market place. It shifts and changes along with the Library, but food is always available to those living there as long as the portal is open. Step into a Parisian market of modern day, an open market of the Dark Ages, or even a trading post in the Old West. Go shopping, take a stroll… your imagination is your only limit.

3. Go Out to Dinner – There aren’t many places to go out to eat in The Central Library, in fact, it is best to keep food to the living quarters. But when you go through portals in events, you experience whole new worlds from every era and every place. Possibly you may sit in at the Mad Tea Party or even dine in the Great Hall at Hogwarts. You pick. You decide…


4. Non-Fiction Immersion – It’s raining. Inside. You’ll find that Non-fiction has a way of ruining your day to day life in the Library. Some book in the Non-fiction section has burst open letting out a monsoon of types that only gets worse as you get to that section. Find it, close it… or we all just might float away.

5. Fiction Invasion – Sometimes things slip through. Little things or big things. After all, monsters do hide in the dark corners and in some sections of the grand structure. But this time… the problem is small, small size that is. Pixies have invaded. They are troublesome things… they love to cause problems and make life a little miserable. You need to catch them before they steal you blind… and possibly cause you too much mischief. You may need a net… but please, try not to kill them.


6. Cleaning is Necessary – You are stuck here, you might want to make it home. Being in such disrepair, it needs a little love and care. I’m sure the janitor’s closets have some tools and no harm in trying to pick up books and shelve them. Just be careful… they are rather testy about where they go.

7. A posse ad esse – Anything is possible. This is your Wild Card. Have fun with it!

This Test Drive is Closed.  A new Test Drive will be posted soon.

Comments

[give_me_a_museum]

"He was a good friend," Barry admitted, "despite the killing people and turning the city into his playground for a while. And seeing him get erased from time was horrible to watch." Barry could still hear Iris screaming for Eddie in his head and he shudders slightly even though he knows Eddie did a good and decent thing in getting rid of himself and his descendant.

He decides to change the subject. "Sounds like you know a little something about being late yourself," he says trying to make a joke out of it.

[like_a_gerbil]

"Try to focus on the good, if you can. If you don't it'll drive you crazy." It was how Steve was accepting that his best friend had been turned into an assassin without letting the guilt destroy him. It wasn't the same as what Allen had went through but there had to be good in those kinds of situations or the weight of what happened would become too much.

Steve almost asked about 'erased from time' but he knew that he wouldn't want someone questioning him about something like that if it was still something he was coming to terms with. "If you ever need someone to talk to about the superhero thing, I'll listen. There's others here too that are a part of that life." Or had been.

"Seventy years." The tone almost made it sound like a joke but the humor didn't quite reach his eyes. "Mission went wrong and I spent a few decades in ice."

[give_me_a_museum]

"I'll try but jumping into a time singularity has messed up my brain I think," Barry says, "I just keep seeing what happened to him over and over again no matter what else I try to think about." But the reveal about Steve and the ice makes Barry blink. "Seventy years....seriously? I hope I look as good as you do when I get to be ninety. And believe me I just might."

[like_a_gerbil]

"Sometimes you just can't stop seeing it no matter how hard you try. It happens to a lot people go through terrible things." At least that was what Sam and some of the therapists had told him. "It doesn't mean that there's something messed up in your brain." Pausing, he looks almost sheepish. "At least that's what a friend of mine tells me on the bad days."

Slowly, he began to smile without the usual brittleness. The lack of pity makes it easier, so does the idea that someone else might understand what it was like to be changed in unexpected ways. "The plane was difficult to find. I wouldn't suggest freezing as a method for preserving your looks. The thawing out process isn't as easy as you'd expect."

[give_me_a_museum]

"That's a good friend willing to be that honest," Barry answers softly, "my friends back home were always that honest. I miss them already. I hope they are okay." He sighs. "We've all had a bad year."

[like_a_gerbil]

"He is. He helped me when most people wouldn't." It hadn't been easy to drag someone else into his fight with HYDRA but Steve was glad he had. "From what the Librarians have said, this isn't long term so you'll see them again. It sounds like you have a better perspective now then when you first started. It'll help with whatever happens next."

[give_me_a_museum]

"It's been eye opening to say the least," Barry says, "robot bees, shape shifters, evil mentors. It's like life just decided to turn me upside down and shake using whatever falls out to make me a better person."

[like_a_gerbil]

"For me it was the aliens that was the shocker." After that the weird of the Avengers seemed almost normal compared to that. "That's kind of how life is even when you don't end up with super powers. As long as you get through it and you keep being a good person, it'll be okay eventually." At least that's what Steve hoped would eventually happen for both of them.

[give_me_a_museum]

"You got to deal with aliens," Barry said excitedly and he ends up speeding around Steve while talking a a speed most normal humans might not be able to deal with. "What were they like, did they have flying saucers, what was their tech like." He then realizes what he's doing and slows down. "Sorry," he said with a blush, "science even with aliens in it gets me excited."